Transforming Workplace safety

Our Story

The Effective platform is the child of a happy marriage; we’ve blended seasoned compliance people with brilliant technology people. Each of our founders, Darragh, Billy and Colm, found themselves in roles where they felt the pain of outdated, cumbersome, paper based safety management systems. At different stages they had trialled some of the technology solutions available at the time but the consensus was that they were bloated, inflexible and expensive. They knew a smarter, more affordable solution was badly needed. Effective Software was formed and Effective was brought to life.

Our purpose is to help organisations streamline compliance and minimise risk by providing the world’s smartest, most flexible, most affordable, compliance management system. Our ‘hands on’ industry experience enables us to quickly and clearly understand your particular needs. We then configure our platform to precisely fit your requirements. Whatever your sector, be it logistics, education, oil and gas, pharma, manufacturing, construction – we can help you streamline compliance and minimise risk.

Company History

See how far we have come

2017

Currently…

Currently helping 135,000 users, across 5 continents in 4,136 locations to transform to workplace safety.

2015

Funding for growth

Effective partner with ACT Venture Capital to fund scaling growth. Although growing and profitable Effective agree funding to focus on sales and technology development to accelerate growth.

Effective partner with major manufacturing company and construction service engineers across the US and Canada to manage safety.

2012

Functionality Increased again

Method Statements, DSE Assessments and COSHH added to further advance functionality across EHS requirements making Effective one of the most complete integrated safety solution

March 2011

First Mobile App for Safety Management Launched

Following the successful release of the iPad the previous year and the start of tablet computing Effective release the first app of its kind allowing online and offline completion of audits and actions for safety professionals.

January 2011

International Partners and Growth

Effective join the High Potential Start-Up program with Enterprise Ireland creating partnerships and acquiring customers across Australia and the Middle East

Sep 2010

Modules expanded for a more comprehensive Safety Management Solution

With demand growing Effective developed out further functionality to include Audits, Contractors, Observations and Chemicals

March 2010

New UI launched

Following trends in other business functions for better software delivered online at a lower cost Effective led the way in EHS with a redesigned UI and a low cost of ownership business model launched at the Safety & Health Expo, the largest EHS event in the UK & Ireland

Feb 2009

Effective Officially Launched to Market

The first true Software as a Service Safety platform in the UK & Ireland was launched to market.

Sep 2008

First modules released in BETA

Training, Incidents, Plant, Risk released to key users to test and improve the solution in industry

2008

Effective Launched

Looking for solutions that were affordable, fully featured and user friendly for safety management and finding nothing, Billy, Darragh & Colm set about creating Effective.

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Leadership Team

Darragh Geoghegan

CEO

Darragh studied mechanical engineering and after six years of working as an engineer, became Operations Manager for a successful Irish construction company. It was during this time, that he and Billy decided to create a compliance solution, which would be affordable, modern, forward-thinking and user-friendly. Darragh drives Business Development, Software Development and Sales, and still finds time to manage everything else that comes with a rapidly growing company.

Billy O' Brien

Director of Customer Success

Billy’s background is in Health & Safety. After twelve years as a consultant in the industry and working with clients to trial and implement the system, he decided to co-found Effective Software with Darragh. Billy’s primary role is to oversee our award winning customer success team and support product development.

Sean O'Sullivan

Chief Technical Officer

In the last few years, Sean has taken on the role of Chief Technical Officer and is leading our expanding tech team focused on developing the smartest health and safety system on the market. Sean has extensive experience working on various projects across the entire tech industry for over 30 years.

Team Effective

Since Effective began, we have grown from strength to strength. We believe the main reason for this success lies in the people we employ. Our flat organisational structure and strong team work ethic allows every employee to freely contribute new ideas to help improve our overall processes and procedures to ensure we continue to grow.

HELP ENGAGE YOUR ENTIRE WORKPLACE IN HEALTH & SAFETY

About us

We’ve blended seasoned compliance people with brilliant technology people. Each of our founders, Darragh, Billy and Colm, found themselves in roles where they felt the pain of outdated, cumbersome, paper based safety management systems. At different stages they had trialled some of the technology solutions available at the time but the consensus was that they were bloated, inflexible and expensive. They knew a smarter, more affordable solution was badly needed.

Effective Software was formed and the Effective platform was brought to life.